washr - a tool and workflow for sharing data
This 2-day workshop is organised by Global Health Engineering, ETH Zurich and the openwashdata community. Participants will learn about FAIR data principles and through hands-on exercises publish a dataset of their own as an R data package.
🎯 Objectives
A the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Describe how data published using the washr package follows FAIR principles compared to data shared in an appendix of a PDF or DOCX document.
Follow step by step instruction to create a data package using the washr package.
Understand the difference between human-readible and machine-readible documentation.
📆 Event Details
Date: Week of 28th October 2024
Location: University of KwaZulu-Natal, WASH R&D Center, Durban, South Africa
📝 Agenda
Time | Title | Remark |
---|---|---|
08:30 - 09:00 | Check in & Breakfast | |
09:00 - 09:05 | Opening | by Mian Zhong |
09:05 - 09:50 | Introduction workshop for washr R package | by Mian Zhong |
10:00 - 12:00 | Coding | Package Setup & Data Cleaning |
12:00 - 12:40 | Lunch | |
12:45 - 14:45 | Coding | Data Cleaning & README writing |
14:45 - 15:00 | Break / Stretch | |
15:00 - 15:30 | Final Polish | Write Feedback Survey |
15:30 - 16:15 | Showcase | |
16:25 - 16:30 | Closing |